Another interesting area of photography and Photoshop I stumbled onto was how much it has changed over the years. How people reacted to edited photos in the past and how they react to them now.
An interesting example of this would have to be ‘The Cottingley fairies’ this is a very famous story of a series of 5 photographs made by two cousins in 1917. These photos got allot of attention in the 1920’s as people questioned whether the images were genuine or fake.
It took until the 1980’s for the two girls to admit the pictures were fake one of the girls however remained adamant that the 5th photo was real.
I found this interesting as this idea of questioning whether photographs were real or fake was going on way back in the 1920’s. I’m looking into people reactions and whether people were more susceptible to fake imaging back then as the technology was rare and not as good. Whereas now the technology is better and in most cases there are no glimpses of where you can see an image could have been edited. There is no way to tell they are fake at all, but we are all far too aware of the technology to believe anything we see that could possibly not be real. We all automatically assume that Photoshop has been used.
